Deformed garnet porphyroblast under linear polarized light

Tectonometamorphic processes

When studying tectonometamorphic processes, we try to constrain the physical conditions under which rocks were deformed as well as the time of their deformation. We are also interested in the geodynamic setting in which deformation and metamorphism took place.
Deformed garnet porphyroblast under linear polarized light
Image: Ustaszewski et al. 2010

Selected Publications

Krenn, E., Ustaszewski, K., Finger, F., 2008: Detrital and newly formed metamorphic monazite in amphibolite-facies metapelites from the Motajica Massif, North Bosnia. Chemical Geology 254(3-4), p. 164-174External link.

Sandmann, S., Nagel, T.J., Froitzheim, N., Ustaszewski, K., Münker, C. (2015). Late Miocene to Early Pliocene blueschist from Taiwan and its exhumation via forearc extraction. Terra Nova, 27, 285-291, doi: 10.1111/ter.12158External link.

Ustaszewski, K., Kounov, A., Schmid, S.M., Schaltegger, U., Krenn, E., Frank, W., Fügenschuh, B. (2010): Evolution of the Adria-Europe plate boundary in the northern Dinarides: From continent-continent collision to back-arc extension, Tectonics, 29, TC6017, doi:10.1029/2010TC002668External link.

Ustaszewski, K., S. M. Schmid, B. Lugović, R. Schuster, U. Schaltegger, D. Bernoulli, L. Hottinger, A. Kounov, B. Fügenschuh, and S. Schefer (2009), Late Cretaceous intra-oceanic magmatism in the internal Dinarides (northern Bosnia and Herzegovina): Implications for the collision of the Adriatic and European plates, Lithos, 108(1-4), 106-125External link.

 

MSc theses

Madeline Richter, 2019: Tectonometamorphic and hydraulic processes along a fossil subduction plate interface in the northern Mirdita Ophiolites (Bajram Curri, Albania), 144 pp, doi: 10.22032/dbt.45757External link

Manuel Thieme, 2015: Thermochronologische Untersuchungen an Granitoiden des Thüringer Hauptgranit und Rotliegendformationen im Thüringer Wald und seinem südwestlichen Vorland, 161 pp.

BSc theses

Selina Echter, 2020: Die Variationen der Cordierit-Gneis-Einheit des sächsischen Granulitgebirges.

Judy Adamek, 2016: Strukturelle und petrographische Untersuchung des Granitgneises an der Talkanzel zwischen Niederlauterstein und Pockau im Erzgebirge (Sachsen).

Linda Burnaz, 2015: Strukturgeologische und petrologische Analyse der Gneise im Schwarzwassertal bei Ansprung, Erzgebirge (Sachsen).

Sonja Frölich, 2015: Struktureller Bau und Metamorphose der Gneise um die Burgruine Niederlauterstein, Erzgebirge, Sachsen.

Julien Marquardt, 2014: Petrographie von Blauschiefern der Yuli Einheit, Taiwan.